Elle Fanning, one of the stars of the Bob Dylan biographical drama film “A Complete Unknown,” says a “bad turkey sandwich” is to blame for making her sick the first time she saw the music icon live.
Fanning and Timothée Chalamet, who plays Dylan in the James Mangold-directed film, told Uproxx that they went to see the singer-songwriter together at one of his shows at New York’s Kings Theatre last year.
But Fanning — who portrays Sylvie Russo, a renamed version of Dylan’s ex-girlfriend Suze Rotolo, in the film — didn’t feel tops and had to vomit.
“Oh my god, he was halfway through. I’d never seen him live, and we were there, and then something overcame me. And then I envisioned the turkey sandwich I’d had that day, and ran out,” Fanning said.
Chalamet told the outlet that he thought his co-star’s experience was “either a great omen for the movie or the exact opposite.”
Fanning, in a recent episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend,” revealed that she couldn’t make it to the bathroom and puked “all over” the carpet in the venue’s lobby.
She told O’Brien that, after leaving the bathroom, she spotted a “sad little cone” notifying concertgoers to avoid the area on the lobby floor.
Fanning, who also shared the story on “The Tonight Show,” told Jimmy Fallon that it was a “memorable” experience nonetheless and declared that she still has to go to a “full” Dylan concert.
Fanning — in remarks at the The Wrap’s 2024 WrapWomen Power Women Summit earlier this month — revealed that she got a “full-on concert” from Chalamet (as Dylan) during her first day on set of the film, according to People.
“Timothée’s so extraordinary in the movie,” said Fanning, who noted that she was an audience member in a scene where the actor performed Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.”
She continued, “I remember tearing up ... he’s a friend of mine [and we’ve] worked together before.”
“And so seeing him accomplish this and this character in such a beautiful way [was moving].”
“A Complete Unknown” is in theaters this week.
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